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It's a tough situation for Drew. While he has dialed up his football fandom to super-sicko levels (complimentary) in recent years, my interest in the sport has remained stubbornly around average. When we discussed having an NFL Draft-focused episode of The Distraction, we we...

OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT further into the day-to-day operations of companies, introducing this week shared “workspace agents” that can carry

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I’ve never seen anything like these photos before. In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Moore wrote of the experience: This moment of eye contact was beyond my wildest dre...

CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.

The AI model release cycle continues. On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro. The new model is, unsurprisingly, its

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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. The NFL Draft starts tonigh...

Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.

What does it actually mean when your open source project becomes one of the few to graduate from the Cloud

The post Jim Bugwadia on why finding a Kubernetes problem is only half the battle for Kyverno users appeared first on The New Stack.

Tom Warren, The Verge (gift link): “Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases, decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” says Microsoft’s HR chief Amy Coleman in a memo seen by The Verge. “For those who may be considering their next chapter, we...

Rachel Metz, reporting for Bloomberg: A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and documen...

Not hitting the headline-grabbing, promised productivity gains of 10, 20, 30, 50%? You’re not alone. There’s a lot more data

The post Only 5% of firms are seeing AI ROI. Our May 7 live event will explain how to change those metrics. appeared first on The New Stack.

Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s. “A century ago, new technology and mobility reshaped what it meant to be young, linking rural life more closely to the city.”

PHILADELPHIA — On the afternoon of April 9, 2026, partisans of the Albertan separatist movement—who rally for the landlocked province’s secession from the broader, united commonwealth of Canada, and the establishment of a self-sufficient petro-state bankrolled by the its amp...

A new report finds that New York City is losing population across income levels, and subsequently schools are losing students. Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, shares his group's recommendations for how to stem the tide of people leaving.

Photo: ThibautRe, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Art and redemption on the West Texas plains.

In honor of World Book Day, National Library Week and the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary, librarians from Brooklyn Public Library have put together a list of 250 books that have been important to the United States. Linda Johnson, CEO and president of Brooklyn Public Library, talks about some of the books on the list and why librarians chose them.

Photo: Rare books at the Brooklyn Library Central Branch. Credit: MMHAD via Wikimedia Commons.

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Curtis Riser had some concerns about the problem of wrongful convictions. He wasn’t the only potential juror to raise this point ahead of the 2009 capital murder trial of James Broadnax, in which the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office was seeking death, but attorneys for the state used one of their limited peremptory strikes to […]

The post A Looming Execution Raises Questions of Race, Responsibility, and Rap appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

I got the chance to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with friends recently and it was magical, otherworldly, lovely. I think we hit peak blossom down to the second. It was cold and gray and windy, which kept the crowds down, provided the perfect photographic contrast, and made for an enchanting petal-fall. Tags: photography